Wildfires of 2010

Waterway Fire

2010Campbell County, South DakotaWildfire

The Waterway Fire burned 2,100 acres in Campbell County, South Dakota, in 2010. It was discovered on April 13, 2010. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.

Size
2,100 acres
Discovered
April 13, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 45.602, -100.152.

The record

Reported final size
2,100 acres
Discovered
April 13, 2010
Cause
Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
State
South Dakota
County
Campbell County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2010-SD-SDS12006

Nearby

Sources

Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.